Books about teenage vampires are lame.

Sometimes it seems like it would just be easier to run away and join the circus. 

Imagine if they had circus Contiki tours. Wonderful idea. You could just go and hang out with the bearded lady and elephant man, have a couple of D&Ms, find belonging in your shared sense of hopelessness and isolation, and then come home. Refreshed.

With loads of case study material, of course.